Stoppering bottles, jars, and the like.



M. QUILLOT. STOPPERING BOTTLES, JARS, AND THE LIKE. APPLICATION FILED 001.18.1906. RENEWED SEPT. 8, 1908.

9 95, Patented July 6,1909.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAURICE QUILLOT OF MONTIGNY-SUR-VINGEANNE, FRANCE, ASSIGNOR TO OOMPAGNIE FRANGAISE DES PRODUITS FIXATOR, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

STOPPERING BOTTLES, JARS, AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 6, 1909.

Application filed October 16, 1906, Serial No. 339,250. Renewed September 8, 1908. Serial No. 452,060.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAURICE QUILLOT, a citizen of the Republic of France, residing at Montigny-sur-Vingeanne, Oote-d()r, France, have invented new and useful Improvements in Stoppering Bottles, Jars, and the Like, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to close the mouths or openings of bottles, jars and the like receptacles air tight b means of capsules or hollow stoppers havlng joint rings on the outside thereof.

My invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is vertical section through a capsule or stopper constructed according to this invention. Fig. 2 is elevation of same. Fig. 8 is section through the neck of a bottle with the capsule orstopper in place. Fig. 4 is similar section showing a capsule or stopper and cork (hereinafter referred to) in position in the bottle neck.

The same letters denote the same parts in all the figures.

As shown the capsule or stopper consists of a thin shell of metal, wood or other suitable material conical in shape, the base of the cone forming either the top or the bottom of the capsule as desired. A recess a is formed round the body of the capsule or stopper in which is fitted an elastic joint ring a. The necks or openings of the bottles, jars, or the like into which the capsules or stoppers are fitted must be coned to the same angles as the capsules or stoppers as shown so that the capsules or stoppers fit the necks or openings of the bottles, jars, or the like exactly, preferably without the tops of the capsules or stoppers projecting beyond the edges of the necks or openings of the bottles, jars or the like see Figs. 3 and 7.

The bottles, ars or the like after the capsules or stoppers are placed in the necks or openings thereof are placed in a corking machine having an arrangement attached thereto which produces a vacuum above the capsule or stopper. The air in the bottle or the like is by this means exhausted, the capsule or stopper rising in the neck or opening of the bottle or the like to allow the air to pass. When the air is exhausted from the bottle or the like the operator admits atmospheric air above the capsule or stopper which presses the same hard down. into the opening or neck of the bottle or the like, the bottle or the like being thus hermetically sealed by the capsule or stopper and the jolnt ring. The capsule or stopper may occupy any desired position in the opening or neck of the receptacles as shown by way of illustration by Figs. 3 and 4. When the contents of bottles and the like thus stoppcred are to be sterilized such bottles and the like are fitted with any suitable device which will prevent the capsule or stopper from rising during the sterilizing process. If desired an ordinary cork may be forced with the capsule or stopper when formed as shown by Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 after stoppering as illustrated by Fig. 4.

Bottles and the like stoppered as above described. may be opened by perforating the capsule or stopper with a punch in the one case or by means of an ordinary corkscrew in the other case.

Claim:

In combination with a bottle or other receptacle having its opening slightly flared, a stopper in the form of a hollow shell or capsule tapered throughout its full length and having a circumferential recess therein, and an elastic ring fitted in the said circumferen tial recess in the stopper, the flare of the walls of the bottle opening extending unbrokenly in rectilinear direction the full length of the stopper, substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

MAURICE QUILLOT.

Witnesses:

PIERRE GALoR, A NARPF. 

